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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Breathing
Sweet
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Love
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Undone

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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.
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